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Books by publisher "Fordham University"
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Judith Butler
[Ebook, Epub 2006]
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Description: What does it mean to lead a moral life?In her first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice--one responsive to the need for critical autonomy and grounded in a new sense of the human subject.Butler takes as her starting point... more
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Joseph Slaughter
[Ebook, Epub 2008]
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Description: In this timely study of the historical, ideological, and formal interdependencies of the novel and human rights, Joseph Slaughter demonstrates that the twentieth-century rise of "world literature" and international human rights law are related phenomena. Slaughter argues that international law shares with the modern novel a particular conception of... more
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Larry Hickman ,
Kersten Reich
[Ebook, Epub 2009]
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Description: Many contemporary constructivists are particularly attuned to Dewey's penetrating criticism of traditional epistemology, which offers rich alternatives for understanding processes of learning and education, knowledge and truth, and experience and culture. This book, the result of cooperation between the Center for Dewey Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and... more
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Bettina Bergo ,
Joseph Cohen ,
Raphael Zagury Orly
[Ebook, Epub 2006]
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Description: Invited to answer questions about his relationship to Judaism, Jacques Derrida spoke through Franz Kafka: "As for myself, I could imagine another Abraham."From the experience of a summons that surprises us and prompts the query "Who, me?" Derrida explores the movement between growing up Jewish, "becoming Jewish," and "Jewish... more
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Georges Canguilhem
[Ebook, Epub 2007]
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Description: As the work of thinkers such as Michel Foucault, Franois Jacob, Louis Althusser, and Pierre Bourdieu demonstrates, Georges Canguilhem has exerted tremendous influence on the philosophy of science and French philosophy more generally. In Knowledge of Life, a book that spans twenty years of his essays and lectures, Canguilhem... more
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Charles Shepherdson
[Ebook, Epub 2008]
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This book weaves together three themes at the intersection of Jacques Lacan and the philosophical tradition. The first is the question of time and memory. How do these problems call for a revision of Lacanas purported aahistoricism, a and how does the temporality of the subject in Lacan intersect with... more
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Elliot Wolfson
[Ebook, Epub 2005]
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Description: This long-awaited, magisterial study-an unparalleled blend of philosophy, poetry, and philology-draws on theories of sexuality, phenomenology, comparative religion, philological writings on Kabbalah, Russian formalism, Wittgenstein, Rosenzweig, William Blake, and the very physics of the time-space continuum to establish what will surely be a highwater mark in work on Kabbalah.... more
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Frank Donoghue
[Ebook, Epub 2008]
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aWhat makes the modern university different from any other corporation?a asked Columbiaas Andrew Delbanco recently in the New York Times. aThere is more and more reason to think: less and less, a he answered.In this provocative book, Frank Donoghue shows how this growing corporate culture of higher education threatens its... more
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Mary Mc Gann
[Ebook, Epub 2004]
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Description: Let It Shine! probes the distinctive contribution of black Catholics to the life of the American church, and to the unfolding of lived Christianity in the United States. This important book explores the powerful spiritual renaissance that has marked African American life and selfunderstanding over the last several decades... more
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Harold Holzer
[Ebook, Epub 2008]
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Description: The seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas held during the Illinois senatorial race of 1858 are among the most important statements in American political history, dramatic struggles over the issues that would tear apart the nation in the Civil War: the virtues of a republic and the... more
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Jean Luc Nancy
[Ebook, Epub 2008]
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Description: In this intimate meditation on listening, Peter Szendy examines what the role of the listener is, and has been, through the centuries. The role of the composer is clear, as is the role of the musician, but where exactly does the listener stand in relation to the music s/he... more
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Jean Luc Nancy ,
Charlotte Mandell
[Ebook, Epub 2008]
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In this lyrical meditation on listening, Jean-Luc Nancy examines sound in relation to the human body. How is listening different from hearing? What does listening entail? How does what is heard differ from what is seen? Can philosophy even address listening, A(c)couter, as opposed to entendre, which means both hearing... more
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Unknown
[Ebook, Epub 2000]
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Description: Manhattan is the tale of a young French scholar who travels to the United States in 1965 on a Fulbright Fellowship to consult the manuscripts of beloved authors. In Yale University's Beinecke Library, tantalized by the conversational and epistolary brilliance of a fellow researcher, she is lured into a... more
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Ronald Begley ,
Joseph Koterski
[Ebook, Epub 2007]
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Description: This volume offers original studies on the subject of medieval education, not only in the formal academicsense typical of schools and universities but also in a broader cultural sense that includes law, liturgy, and the new religious orders of the high Middle Ages. Its essays explore the transmission of... more
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Meyer Berger ,
Pete Hamill
[Ebook, Epub 1999]
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Description: Meyer ("Mike") Berger was one of the greatest journalists of this century. A reporter and columnist for The New York Times for thirty years, he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for his account of the murder of thirteen people by a deranged war veteran in Camden, New Jersey.Berger... more
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Lawrence Kramer
[Ebook, Epub 2009]
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Description: Musical understanding has evolved dramatically in recent years, principally through a heightened appreciation of musical meaning in its social, cultural, and philosophical dimensions. This collection of essays by leading scholars addresses an aspect of meaning that has not yet received its due: the relation of meaning in this broad... more
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Keine Wirth
[Ebook, Epub 2009]
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Description: Musically Sublime rewrites musically the history and philosophy of the sublime. Music enables us to reconsider the traditional course of sublime feeling on a track from pain to pleasure. Resisting the notion that there is a single format for sublime feeling, Wurth shows how, from the mid eighteenth century... more
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Nasrin Qader
[Ebook, Epub 2008]
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Description: Narratives of Catastrophe tells the story of the relationship between catastrophe, in the senses of "down turn" and "break," and narration as "recounting" in the senses suggested by the French term rcit in selected texts by three leading writers from Africa. Qader's book begins by exploring the political implications... more
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Vanessa Lemm
[Ebook, Epub 2009]
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This book explores the significance of human animality in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and provides the first systematic treatment of the animal theme in Nietzsche's corpus as a whole Lemm argues that the animal is neither a random theme nor a metaphorical device in Nietzsche's thought. Instead, it stands... more
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Merold Westphal
[Ebook, Epub 2001]
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Description: Overcoming Onto-theology is a stunning collection of essays by Merold Westphal, one of America's leading continental philosophers of religion, in which Westphal carefully explores the nature and the structure of a postmodern Christian philosophy. Written with characteristic clarity and charm, Westphal offers masterful studies of Heidegger's early lectures on... more
